Working with Archival Data: Studying Lives

by Glen H. Elder Jr., Eliza K. Pavalko, Elizabeth C. Clipp

Although the growth of longitudinal data archives is one of the most dramatic developments in the behavioural sciences, there has been a barrier to the effective use of these files due to a lack of understanding of the relation between research questions and archival data - until now. The authors of this volume illustrate how to use the model-fitting process to select and fit the right data set to a particular research problem. Beginning with an introduction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803942621
• ISBN13: 9780803942622
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 8.4"